“Making wars means making maps,” the Thai scholar Thongchai Winichakul wrote in his landmark Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation (1994).
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VIETNAM is aggressively building permanent structures in the contested West Philippine Sea (WPS) based on a document obtained by The Manila Times titled Planning of Construction Projects on Pearson Reef and Pigeon Reef in Spratly Islands, signed by Rear Admiral Tran Thanh Nghiem, commander of the Vietnam People s Navy, and dated March 27, 2023.
VIETNAM has tapped a private company to build an artificial island in the West Philippine Sea as part of its militarization efforts in areas that it claims, according to documents of the government project leaked to The Manila Times.